The Gray Area with Sean Illing

The Gray Area with Sean Illing takes a philosophy-minded look at culture, technology, politics, and the world of ideas. Each week, we invite a guest to explore a question or topic that matters. From the the state of democracy, to the struggle with depression and anxiety, to the nature of identity in the digital age, each episode looks for nuance and honesty in the most important conversations of our time. New episodes drop every Monday. From the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
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Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
602
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
603
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
604
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
605
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
606
The Green Pill
57 min
607
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
608
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
609
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
610
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
611
Optimism about America
78 min
612
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
613
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
614
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
615
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
616
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
617
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
618
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
619
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
620
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
621
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
622
A better conversation on guns
49 min
623
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
624
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
625
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min